Lex CloakSignatures and handwriting
Handwriting and signatures are not detected automatically. Click Signatures in the toolbar to run a best-effort scan for them, then check the results by eye and use draw mode to cover anything it missed. Lex Cloak detects signatures rather than redacting them for you on purpose, so that you stay in control of high-stakes pages.
Why signatures are detected, not auto-redacted
Signatures and initials are different from typed identifiers. They carry weight in legal, medical, and government workflows, the result of redacting one is often visible on the page, and a false positive can be expensive. Lex Cloak treats signatures as a flag for your review rather than a thing to redact automatically. You decide which to cover.
Running the signature scan
- Click Signatures in the toolbar. The scan looks across every page of the current document, on a best-effort basis. It is disabled until the document is scanned.
- Each finding shows up as a proposed redaction box, in the same colour as the other uncertain matches.
- Review each finding by eye. Use the page navigation keys to step through the document quickly. For anything the scan flagged that you want to redact, leave it on. For anything you want to keep visible, turn it off.
- Where the scan missed something, hold Shift and drag to draw a redaction box. See draw a redaction over anything.
The pre-download checklist warning
When the scan finds signatures, the pre-download checklist shows a Signatures found warning. This is a reminder to confirm that every signature has been reviewed and either covered or deliberately left visible, not a block. See the per-warning reference on the pre-download checklist.
For high-stakes documents, the best approach is to combine the scan with a manual page-by-page review. The scan catches the obvious cases; your eye catches the ones the scan could not.